we have add add tremendous amount of technology andxd capability. i would submit to you that, and i have been around the department a long type, that our relationship with the many, many communities in new york, the most diverse in any world are better now than they have ever been. >> rose: we conclude this evening with the appreciation of whitney houston, who died in los angeles at age 48, joining me, can dab yen snim of billboard and jon pareles of "the new york times". >> when you heard her sing you went over there to turn up the volume, when her song came on the radio you stay in the car after you park until she finished. i mean, all you have to do is look at the star-spangled banner, super bowl 25, i have never seen that sung more nonchalantly, yet more perfectly, with more pride in self, more pride in country, i mean, she ruined it for pretty much anybody else. >> she had one of the great instruments in my lifetime, probably in history. she was a stradivarius, she was pure, she was strong, and i am talking about her voice, and she was -- she h